Best books: Beach reads and stocking fillers
From the Booker Prize winner to inspiring biographies and chilling crime novels, this list by our chief literary critic has you covered.
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When does isolation become loneliness?
Philip Salom presents loneliness in its most desperate and radical form: that of individuals who disappear without trace.
Dalton’s vivid vision
All Our Shimmering Skies is a vision of the Top End so thrilling and vividly represented that it should come with a warning.
Words in the right hands can be dangerous
Malcolm Knox turns his attention to the aspects of Australian culture that require a product recall.
Contemporary crazy
Australian Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre sinks the stiletto deep into our digitally dependent society in his satirical new novel.
Australia Proper
A just-published autobiography of Arthur Upfield, creator of part-indigenous detective Bony, shows that sometimes outsiders have the clearest perspective.
Leaves worth turning
Kate Grenville pierces the bubble of impeccability that surrounds the historical figure of Elizabeth Macarthur.
The outcast
As a writer, Colin Johnson aka Mudrooroo deserves our respect.
More Kafka than Clarke
A Treacherous Country is closer to Franz Kafka than Marcus Clarke. It’s a parable wrapped in a melodrama.
Outside the circle
The dispossessed are at the heart of Aravind Adiga’s new novel.
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